On
June 24, 1895, Jack Dempsey, the American world heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926, was
born. Following his death on May 31, 1983, his obituary appeared in The Times.
OTHER HAPPENINGS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
1314 The forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.
1497 The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot, on a voyage for England, spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.
1509 Henry VIII was crowned king of England.
1793 The first republican constitution in France was adopted. 1908 Former President Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at age 71.
1940 France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
1974 The Beach Boys' greatest hits album "Endless Summer" was released.
1998 AT andT Corp. struck a deal to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
2004 Federal investigators questioned President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
2006 Patsy Ramsey, who was thrust into the national spotlight by the unsolved slaying of her daughter JonBenet, died at age 49.
2009 After going AWOL for seven days, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit his mistress.
2010 John Isner of the U.S. defeated Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon in the longest-ever professional match: 11 hours, 5 minutes over three days. (Isner won the fifth set 70-68.)
